Case Study: International Organization for Migration improves missing migrant documentation with Dataminr First Alert

How Dataminr Helps the International Organization for Migration Improve Documentation of Missing Migrants

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) needed a more efficient way to document migrant deaths and disappearances worldwide for its Missing Migrants Project. Before working with Dataminr, the team relied on costly media monitoring and alert tools that were often inaccurate, repetitive, and time-consuming to review.

Dataminr’s First Alert gave IOM real-time, multilingual alerts from over a million public sources, helping the team detect incidents sooner, group related reports into a single topic, and speed up verification. As a result, IOM reduced the time spent sifting through articles, improved workflow efficiency, and even uncovered highly localized incidents, including a shipwreck off Senegal that could have involved over 100 missing people.

International Organization for Migration

Andrea García-Borja

Data Analyst